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The Good Fight Is the Best TV Show to Watch if You Really F*cking Hate Trump

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This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beasts Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, . Christine Baranskis Diane Lockhart came back this week. The armor: a chic blazer embellished in a gold-foil brocade print. The helmet: The classiest damn blown-out bob that ever existed. The weapon: A manilla folder clutched close to the vest, her methodical plan to eviscerate her opponent in the name of moral justice enclosed. The steed: No need. Diane Lockhart…

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How Pamela Adlon Totally Reinvented Herself and Became a TV Icon

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excellent FX series Better Things, she wrote a series of phrases on note cards and stuck them to the wall. Divorce is contagious. Togetherness. Forgiveness. Rain. I feel like I had themes this season for the first time, Adlon tells me on this weeks episode of Mike Judge, who co-created King of the Hill. Adlon won an Emmy Award for voicing young Bobby Hill on that animated series. I never thought Mike would come down to do this scene, just stick his head in, Adlon says, explaining that Judge was…

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The diehards of doom! Why Doctor Who is the show fans love to hate

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For 56 years and counting, Whovians have been railing against the wheres, whys and, well, everything about their beloved series. Will anything quell this rage? WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE MAGIC OF DOCTOR WHO? This was the question posed in full caps by the president of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society in its magazine, TARDIS. The year was 1977, and the story under scrutiny was The Deadly Assassin. Today, this Manchurian Candidate-riffing conspiracy thriller is regarded as one of Doctor Whos all-time greats, from the height of Tom Bakers stripy…

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The BachelorHas Erupted Into Absolute Mayhem Over One Bad Rose

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This post contains spoilers for Mondays episode ofThe Bachelor. Poor Victoria F. never stood a chance. Neither did Victoria P. And come to think of it, neither did tweeted just as the moment happened on-screen, Years of random concerts about to pay off in 3….2…… Victoria and Chase dated before she came on the showand as Victoria later revealed to a producer, he had previously told her he didnt want her to come on The Bachelor. As Chase performed one of his songs, Victoria and Peter began to danceand perhaps…

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Katy Perry offers no respite for the embattled royals

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Another blundersome week for the royal crew who, still reeling from Harrys exodus and revelations about Andrew, now find out that the singer has no Asian heritage Over the past few years, the royal helicopter took off comparatively infrequently from the field by Kensington Palace. Over the past month, however, it has been like an Oliver Stone movie out there. Its the Platoon of ribbon-cutting, the Nam of nursery visiting. Since Harry and Meghan decided to step back from their royal duties, the general stepping forward of other royals has…

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The Real Genius of Love Island Is Its Money-Making App

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Love Island—the reality show stuffed with six-packs, sunscreen, fake tans, and pearly white teeth—is back! WIRED UK. The series, which returned to screens for a winter edition last Sunday, has been a smash hit, crossing international borders and being referenced on other shows including Orange is the New Black and Euphoria. But there’s an aspect to the show’s success that no one is talking about—Love Island has been revolutionizing the television business through its money-making app. Since 2017, the Love Island fan companion app has generated over £12 million in…

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Aaron Hernandez: how did a $40m NFL star become a convicted killer?

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In a Netflix docuseries, the shocking true story of a much-loved athlete convicted of first-degree murder is placed under the microscope Even by the standards of Americas obsession with stories of spectacular falls from grace, the trajectory of Aaron Hernandez, a star New England Patriots football player turned convicted murderer, was particularly steep and unusually compelling a senseless, horrific collapse unfolding in real time. Three years before fake news became an ominous catch-all, Hernandezs summer 2013 arrest for the murder of Odin Lloyd at his mansion in North Attleborough, Massachusetts…

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Streaming: all eyes on the Netflix crown

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Apple TV+, Britbox and the long-awaited Disney+ are circling, but one streaming giant continues to reign supreme Last year was transitional for the streaming scene, at least in the UK: the promised avalanche of major new outlets to dent mixed reviews, punched through into public consciousness, while Apples plans to take on Netflix in the prestige film stakes got off to dropped from thewarily regarded in some quarters. Why pay a monthly subscription for the free-to-air content covered by my licence fee, runs the argument not helped by a The…

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The decade that broke me! Could anyone keep up with TV’s golden age?

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Forget prestige television the real glory days were back when there was nothing on. No wonder people fib constantly about what they watch. Heres how to do it convincingly Speaking as someone who writes about television for a living, the 2010s have absolutely broken me. It all used to be so simple. There were five channels, three of them good, and you watched whatever they decided to show you. It didnt matter if it was rubbish, either. Soap operas. Game shows. So many documentaries about the British Transport Police youd…

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Moral of the story: 2019’s boldest culture asked what it means to be good

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At a time when deceit is trumping decency, artists from Kanye West to Greta Gerwig and Phoebe Waller-Bridge have taken it upon themselves to pose questions about virtue and privilege In Little Women, a haughty publisher dismisses Jo Marchs stories as unfashionable. Morals dont sell nowadays, he tells the aspiring author. People want to be amused, not preached at. Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired on spoiling a 151-year-old story: March an avatar for her creator, Louisa May Alcott proves him wrong. As has Gerwig, reviving Little Women in…

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Clive James remembered by John Simpson

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The BBC world affairs editor on a charismatic wit and gifted poet who elevated British life with his televisual panache He came into my life in the same way, I imagine, as he came into everyone elses: with a joke and a certain amount of bounce, but also with a degree of authority that meant you took him seriously, even while you were laughing. Jesus, what do you do here put on Wagner? It was Clives, and my, last year at Cambridge University, and I was living in a medieval…

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